The government has received 130 preliminary bids from companies like Essar Power, Hindalco, Adani Power and Jindal Power for 21 coal blocks on offer in the second tranche of ongoing auction.

The coal auctions in the first phase will fetch the states over Rs 1 lakh crore.

Swarup had earlier tweeted that from the coal block auctions, Chhattisgarh will get the maximum Rs 47,552 crore followed by Madhya Pradesh Rs 35,588 crore and Jharkhand Rs 12,622 crore.

“States like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal, and MP to benefit the most out of e-auction proceeds,” Swarup had earlier tweeted, adding that Rs 1.09 lakh crore of e-auction amount and Rs 12,800 crore would go to states in the next 30 years.

The companies that have bagged blocks in the first phase include Reliance Cement, GMR Chhattisgarh, Hindalco, Sunflag Iron and Steel, Jaiprakash Associates, Jaiprakash Power Ventures, OCL Iron and Steel, Bharat Aluminium, Essar Power MP, Jindal Power and UltraTech Cement.